Section Two
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UNVERS1TY OF OREGON, EUGENE,
Sports Section
FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1946
Number 134
Oregon State Trackmen
Capture Conference Meet
V/ebfoots Edged In Final Event of Day;
Finish Fraction of Point Behind Leaders
The Northern Division track and
field meet in Seattle last Saturday
was that city’s second major earth
jj^ake of the year.
The meet produced more unex
pected jolts than any previous con
ference meet ^ield. Oregon State
came from behind in the very last
event of the exciting meet to win
by the margin of a half-point with
a total score of 32 points.
Washington was the half-point
behind, having 31% and the “sold
down the river’’ Oregon track team
surprised 5000 spectators, 80 track
and field men and 5 coaches to
capture third with 31 1-10 points!
One extra point squeezed in along
the line would have made the sur
prising Ducks t h d Conference
champions!
Everyone in the University of
Washington’s stadium sweated out
the final reports. At the end of the
final running race, the mile relay,
JJregon had a commanding lead,
31 1-10 points, with Washington
second, 24% points, and OSC
third—24 points.
Two field events, the discus and
broad jump, had not been reported,
and as they came in and were add
ed to the score. Washington forged
ahead of the Ducks with their final
score and the Beavers edged up
with the needed half-point advan
tage to win the meet.
“Ifs,” “ands” and “buts” could
be given why Oregon didn’t get
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All UO Netmen
Return in 1947
By John Smith
Final Northern Division Stand
'' a*s:
Won Lost Pet.
Washington . 4 0 1.000
Oregon . 3 2 .600
OSC . 3 2 .600
WSC . 1 3 .333
Idaho . 0 4 .000
The University of Oregon Ducks
tennis team completed a very suc
cessful season when they tied for
second place in the Northern Di
vision. The team lost only two
matches during the entire season
thereby tieing with the Oregon
State Beavers.
Selecting the team by the elimi
nation process proved quite a job
for there were many excellent men
turning out. Jim ZeZiger acted as
coach the first few weeks of the
season during the absence of Coach
Paul Washke who was attending a
conference in St. Louis. Zeiger
did a fine job in- getting the men
in shape and lots of credit for this
year’s successful season may be
attributed to him.
Bearcats First
The Ducks opened their season
-^with a non-conference tilt with the
Bearcats of Willamette university.
In this warm-up preliminary the
Ducks showed that they were go
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Duck Gridders
Conclude Year
With Banquet
The University of Oregon’s
spring football program was wrap
ped in mothballs to lie dormant
but not forgotten ’till September
7th as the Eugene Chamber of
Commerce Monday night have a
gridiron banquet for Head Coach
Tex Oliver, assistants Mike Miku
lak and Vaughn Corley, and nearly
sixty grid prospects for the 1946
season.
The evening’s program gave
recognition to one of Oregon’s
most promising spring seasons, one
that in pre-war years would have
started talk of Hose Bowl trips
and undefeated seasons but in view
of expected stiff competition
throughout the conference in 1946
merely resulted in hopes and
crossed fingers.
So bitter is the competition ex
pected this fall that not even the
perennial conference strongholds
have laid claim for top positions
in the 1946 standings.
The Northern schools according
to spring releases appear to be
very nearly in equal positions. The
University of Washington squad
under Coach Relph (Pest) Welch
is loaded with returning lettermen
and stars who have in previous
years received all-coast recogni
tion.
The Oregon State Beavers under
mentor Lon Stiner are known to
possess tremendous possibilities
and have been tabbed by some
California sports writers as the
team to watch.
At Pullman the Washington
State Cougars have been working
under Coach phil Sorboe and have
been little publicized but highly
regarded.
Reports from Idaho and Mon
tana indicate that the Vandals and
Grizzlies also boast the best grid
material in the history of the
respective schools.
Among the southern schools the
mighty Southern California Tro
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UO Nine Rests After 9~5
Loss to Beavers in ND Final
Hobson Challenge to Southern Division
Champions USC Still Unanswered
r^i'Ofrnn'c niimnn t
With his sixth Northern Division baseball title safely
tucked away, Coach Howard Hobson is attempting to arrange
a three game playoff for the Ducks against the winners in the
Southern Division. %
Duck Nine Strong After
Shaky Pre-Season Start
The Northern Division flag will
fly over Howe field for another
sason as a result of the 1946 pen
nant chase. Oregon now holds four
flags in a row and eight out of the
last 11.
Oregon had been out of baseball
for two seasons when Coach
Howard Hobson called out the
1946 prospects. The three northern
members of the loop, Washington,
Idaho and Washington State were
favored to battle it out for the
flag.
Oregon opened at home after a
so-so pre-conference schedule.
Idaho went away from Howe field
with two losses. Washington State
was next. The Cougars went on the
way without a win.
Tough Washington was next and
came very close to clipping the
Duck’s wings. But the Huskies
dropped both games and Oregon
closed the first home stand with a
perfect record.
The Washington series furnished
the greatest garrison finish in
many years on Howe field. Wash
ington went into the ninth inning
of the first game with a five run
lead and with Max Soriano pitch
ing a no-hitter.
Walt Kirsch ruined the no
hitter with a single to left. Mo
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Hayward Muses Over Past
Colonel Bill Hayward’s 43rd year
as coach for the University of Ore
gon was climaxed Saturday by his
“down in the mouth” track team’s
performance in the Northern Divi
sion track and field meet at Seat
tle. Bill had intended to fly to
Seattle in order to watch his team
perform but was forced to stay in
Eugene.
Musing on past years in a recent
interview, Bill pointed out the
many differences between today’s
athletics and those when he started
his coaching career. Even the mode
of travel was different and as Hay
ward said, "In those days we used
anything we could get to trans
port us to the meets, horses,
wagons, or even our own feet!"
This year’s team was beginning to
wonder what they were going to
use to get up to Seattle last Friday
when the sudden train strike void
ed their reservations.
Bill has developed some of the
top runners and field men in the
nation during his years at Oregon.
In 1912 the genial mentor coached
the American Olympics team and
proceeded to turn out top men for
Oregon every year after that.
Among the more renowned prote
ges of Hayward are Les Steers,
world champion high jumper, Boyd
Brown, national champion javelin
tosser, and George Varoff, one of
the best pole vaulters in the coun
try in his day.
Hayward was no slouch as an
athlete himself in "those good ole
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Ducks Await Word on Playoff
ball team was loafing this week
awaiting the decision on the north
south playoffs to be played June
14 and 15 here in Eugene if the.
southern winner accepts the chal
lenge of the Ducks.
Oregon closed its season last
Saturday at Corvallis by dropping
a 9 to 5 game to the Oregon State
Beavers. The win gave the Beavers
the 1946 series, three to one and
closed the 1946 conference sched
ule..
Oregon’s final record was 11 wins
and five defeats. Oregon State
finished one game back of the
championship Ducks with 10 wins
and six losses.
Big Don Cecil, ineffective all
year, hung up his second straight
win over the Ducks last Saturday.
He completed the season with three
wins and two losses.
The Beavers used the same tac
tics that won the game for the
Ducks on Howe field Friday after
noon. Four of the 13 hits racked
up by the Staters were bunts.
Oregon State opened the scoring
in the second inning. Harry
Schultze opened with a triple and
then Dick Lehl hit Dorwood Cecil
with a pitched ball. On a double
steal Walt Kirsch's throw back to
the plate was in the dirt, and
Schultze scored the first run. Don
Wegner, goat of the Friday game,
singled home the second run.
Don Cecil lost control in the top
of the fourth and allowed Oregon
to tie it up. Bob Santee opened
with a single and Don Cecil then
hit Tony Crish with a pitched ball.
Spike Johnson singled one run
home.
Don Cecil then threw wild on an
attempted bunt and the bases were
loaded. Don Dibble was given a
free base when he was hit by
another pitched ball and the tieing
run came home.
Oregon State took a. command
ing lead in the last of the fourth
with another pair of runs. A wafk.
and singles by Wegner and Dick
Kohler drove in a pair of tallies.
Another run scored in the fifth
when Dorwood Cecil and Jac k
Schimel followed another walk
with one-base blows.
Oregon’s defense collapsed in the
seventh and four runs raced across
the plate. Four hits, two of them
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Oregon Golfers
Lose in Tourney
The mediocre University of Ore
gon golf team concluded the season
with a none too brilliant finish laat
Saturday when they finished fourth
in the five team Northern Division
golf tourney.
The Webfoots struggled through
the season without the aid of a
single letterman as they captured
two dual conference meets while
losing four.
Included in the victory column
were a win over the Idaho Vandals
and a late season revenge win
over the Oregon State Beavers.
The season’s losses were at the
hands of Washington State, the
division champion Washington
Huskies, and the Oregon State
Beavers in a match in which the
Webfoots were a man short.
Leading the Oregon linksters in,
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